Harry Stradling Jr., ASC (January 7, 1925 – October 17, 2017) was an American cinematographer. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, for 1776 (1972) and The Way We Were (1973).
Life and career Stradling was born in Yonkers, New York in 1925. His father was two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Harry Stradling. His great-uncle, Walter Stradling, was also a cinematographer.
He worked on four Blake Edwards films and six films by Burt Kennedy. (See: List of film director and cinematographer collaborations). He was acclaimed in particular as a skilled cinematographer in Westerns. He was nominated for two Oscars, for 1776 and The Way We Were, and for a Primetime Emmy for George Washington. He also did cinematography on 87 episodes of Gunsmoke, and shot 21 of the total 23 episodes of the TV show Cimarron Strip.
Stradling's work on Westerns, including both Gunsmoke and Cimarron Strip as well as feature films including the 1969 Western comedy Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), brought him to the heavily filmed Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, where he has been cited as one of the most adept cinematographers of his era when it came to capturing the unique cinematic attributes of the location's massive sandstone boulders.
Filmography Film Year Title Director Notes1965 SynanonRichard Quine1967 Welcome to Hard TimesBurt Kennedy1st of 6 collaborations with Kennedy1968 With Six You Get EggrollHoward Morris 1969 Support Your Local Sheriff!Burt Kennedy The Mad RoomBernard Girard Young Billy Young Burt Kennedy The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1970 There Was a Crooked Man...Joseph L. Mankiewicz Dirty Dingus MageeBurt Kennedy Little Big ManArthur Penn 1971 Support Your Local GunfighterBurt Kennedy Fools' ParadeAndrew V. McLaglen1st of 3 collaborations with McLaglen The Late LizDick Ross Something BigAndrew V. McLaglen 1972 SkyjackedJohn Guillermin Thumb TrippingQuentin Masters 1776Peter H. Hunt 1973 The Man Who Loved Cat DancingRichard C. Sarafian The Way We WereSydney Pollack 1974 McQJohn Sturges Nightmare HoneymoonElliot Silverstein Bank ShotGower Champion 1975 Bite the BulletRichard Brooks MitchellAndrew V. McLaglen Rooster CogburnStuart Millar 1976 MidwayJack Smight The Big BusJames Frawley Special DeliveryPaul Wendkos 1977 The GreatestTom Gries Damnation AlleyJack Smight 1978 ConvoySam Peckinpah Go Tell the SpartansTed Post Born AgainIrving Rapper1979 ProphecyJohn Frankenheimer 1980 CarnyRobert Kaylor Up the AcademyRobert Downey Sr. 1981 S.O.B.Blake Edwards1st of 4 collaborations with Edwards The Pursuit of D. B. CooperRoger Spottiswoode Buddy BuddyBilly Wilder1982 O'Hara's WifeWilliam Bartman1984 Micki & Maude Blake Edwards1986 A Fine Mess1987 Blind Date1988 Caddyshack IIAllan Arkush
Television Year Title Notes1964−67 Gunsmoke86 episodes1967−68 Cimarron Strip21 episodes1970 Storefront Lawyers1 episode
TV films and miniseries Year Film1984 George Washington
Awards and nominations +AwardYearCategoryWorkResultAcademy Award1973Best Cinematography17761974The Way We WerePrimetime Emmy Awards1984Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or MovieGeorge Washington
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External links
Harry Stradling Jr. at the Iverson Movie Ranch Iverson Movie Ranch: History, vintage photos.